[rochester-pm-list] www.perl.com: My Life with Spam (fwd)

Tue Mar 21 11:30:54 CST 2000

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Hello, perl.com subscribers.

New Perl Looming

I'm excited this week because at long last, a new major 
release of Perl is imminent, the long-awaited successor 
to 5.005.  One of the things that has changed is the version 
numbering system, so the new release will be numbered 5.6.0 
instead of 5.006.  5.6.0 is in its final trial stages now.

The biggest news about 5.6.0 is that all the threading code 
has changed, and one side-effect of this is that the fork() 
call is emulated even on fork-less Windows systems.  We have 
Gurusamy Sarathy to thanks for this piece of wizardry.  When 
5.6.0 is fully released, www.perl.com will carry the full 
announcement and a description of the new features.

More Spam Filtering

Part 3 of my series abut spam filtering is on the web site 
now at http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/03/spam3.html.  The 
article discusses how my spam filter keeps a blacklist, a 
whitelist, and a loser list.  It talks about the hazards of 
false positive results in your filter tests, and how I had a 
minor financial disaster because of it.  

Return of Perlland

Long ago Tom used to contribute to the www.perl.com web site.  
But recently he's been busy, and his section on the main page, 
`Perlland', hadn't been updated since last July.  I missed 
hearing Tom's technical reports and opinions about Perl, but 
I knew he was too busy with the new Camel book to write 
anything.  So I asked him if it would be okay if I posted some 
of my own thoughts in Perlland, and he agreed.

This week, the first of these pieces appears there.  I tried 
to write on topics that I thought Tom might have chosen.  This 
week's piece: ``POD is not Literate Programming!''  Who said 
it was?  Lots of people.  What is literate programming?  Read 
the article.  http://www.perl.com/tchrist/litprog.html

More p5p Summaries

Regular summaries of p5p have resumed, and things are quite 
busy on the list.  Partly this is because of all the work that's 
being done on 5.6.0, and partly it's because Tom Christiansen is 
working hard on a new edition of _Programming Perl_, and sends 
in bug reports and clarifications every day.

Thank you all.  I will probably be in touch again in early April.

Mark Dominus
Managing Editor

My Life with Spam

Tutorial: My Life With Spam: Part 3
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/03/spam3.html?wwwrrr_20000315.txt
In the third part of a tutorial on how to filter spam, 
Mark-Jason Dominus reveals how he relegates mail to his 
"losers list, blacklist and whitelist."

Article: Ten Perl Myths
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/01/10PerlMyths.html?wwwrrr_20000315.txt
Ten things that people like to say about Perl that aren't true.  

Tutorial: My Life With Spam
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/02/spamfilter.html?wwwrrr_20000315.txt
In the second part of a tutorial on how to filter spam, 
Mark-Jason Dominus shows what to do with spam once you've 
caught it.

 Ten Perl Myths
 http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/02/23/index.html?wwwrrr_20000315.txt
 [02/23/2000]

 My Life With Spam
 http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/02/09/index.html?wwwrrr_20000315.txt
 [02/09/2000]

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